Service APIs Overview

Cloud Bigtable provides REST/HTTP and gRPC interfaces. If you aren't
able to use our client libraries to access Cloud Bigtable,
you can write your own client libraries that use the REST/HTTP or gRPC API. We
recommend this approach only if the client libraries that we provide do not meet
your requirements. The client libraries include many important features, such
as authentication and retries, that can be challenging to implement correctly.

gRPC API

You can use the .proto service definition for Cloud Bigtable to generate
your own gRPC client library in any language that gRPC supports. Use these
resources to generate a client library: